Chinese animation has another major box office hit on its hands. Pearl Studio (formerly DreamWorks Oriental) and CMC Pictures’ All Wishes Come True! earned $43.8 million over the weekend, climbing to first place in its second frame and good enough for second place worldwide.
The fantasy comedy has now grossed $109.5 million after nine days of release, including previews. It displaced Stephen Chow’s live-action Kung Fu Soccer in the country’s top spot.
Written and directed by Mu Zhengyang, All Wishes Come True! reimagines the Eight Immortals of Chinese mythology as a group of mortals planning to rob the gods. The film is Pearl’s first major theatrical release since 2020’s Oscar-nominated Over the Moon and will begin an unusually wide, for a Chinese animated feature, international rollout next month.
Its success is the latest evidence that animation is now a central part of China’s theatrical business. Animated films accounted for nearly half of the country’s box office revenue in 2025, led by the $2.2 billion phenomenon Ne Zha 2. Shanghai Animation Film Studio’s hand-drawn Nobody also earned $215.3 million, a 2D record in the country, while Zootopia 2 became China’s highest-grossing imported animated feature ever.
Those films varied considerably in style and origin, but their performances point to an audience increasingly willing to treat animation as event cinema, especially if its based on local mythology and history. With All Wishes Come True!, that momentum has carried into another summer season.